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Swathed Canola

rusty6

rusty6

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Got my canola all swathed this past week. Big change in weather from dry and 90 degrees when I started to rain and 60 degrees before I finished. Ideal conditions actually. AC in the heat of the day and a little heat turned up after dark. Crop is not bad considering the drought. Here is a photo from yesterday showing my little 21 foot swaths on the left and the neighbour's close to 40 foot swaths on the right.

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JD Swathing
 
Nice pic. Our canola in NE Alberta is not too bad as well, fortunately the hay is decent too.
 
Great video sir. I know nothing about canola. Do you sell your crop or feed it to your cattle? Is the roller used to compress the windrows? As always, I enjoy your farming videos. Thank you. Kow Farmer Kurt
 
(quoted from post at 12:06:33 08/22/21) Great video sir. I know nothing about canola. Do you sell your crop or feed it to your cattle? Is the roller used to compress the windrows? As always, I enjoy your farming videos. Thank you. Kow Farmer Kurt
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I don't know what they do with the meal after the crushers are done extracting the oil but it might just be used for cattle feed. The oil is what I fry my meals in every day.
Yes, the roller is to press the swath down into the stubble so the wind is less likely to blow the swath away. Still no guarantee with some of the winds we get here.
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We have been feeding canola meal the past year to our dairy herd. But supply looks to be short this coming year. How much do you estimate the crop is decreased?
 
(quoted from post at 13:38:26 08/22/21) How much do you estimate the crop is decreased?
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I hear estimates it might only be half a normal crop. Mine was easy swathing and that is always a sign of a lighter crop for me. Heavy crops are slow going with plugging up going through the swath opening.
 
Dad raised some a couple of years it didn't go over well here and market was not so good either. He just direct cut it. Moisture was his problem too. Fine black seed about the size of pepper or slightly bigger if I recall.
 
Nice photo and video. The close up photo reminds me of ripe wild mustard as to shape and size of the pods. Do you sell all you raise and just buy new seed the following spring? Is the seed about equal to flax in size? Flax was always hard to handle as I remember (due to small and slippery seed) and I suppose canola is too.
 
(quoted from post at 18:24:08 08/23/21) Nice photo and video. The close up photo reminds me of ripe wild mustard as to shape and size of the pods. Do you sell all you raise and just buy new seed the following spring? Is the seed about equal to flax in size? Flax was always hard to handle as I remember (due to small and slippery seed) and I suppose canola is too.
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We have to buy new canola seed every year if we want the GMO RR technology. There was a movie made about a guy that tried to get around that. (Percy) Canola seed is smaller than flax but round and not so slippery.
 
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